I had no idea

Today showed me that my prayers were being answered and I had NO idea!!  In my prayers is always the request that we will know how to teach our children and that they will desire to follow after the Savior.  This seems kinda like a long term request since you won't know how they turn out for awhile.  Today we went into Mesa to attend Amy's (SIL) babies blessings. Their's started an hour after our normal church does, so we had a little bit of a dilemma before us.  We could just stay the whole three hours of their church, but our friend Mike was being ordained a priest and we really wanted to be there to support him.  That would happen at 11 and Amy's church wouldn't end till 12.  We could stay just for sacrament meeting and then head home and get there just in time, that would have worked as well.

We were discussing it on the way there to decide what the best choice was.  All the kids piped up and very clearly stated that they wanted to make it back in time for the last hour of our church.  In order to do that, we could only stay for part of sacrament at Amy's.  Now, to simplify... an extra half hour at Amy's and then no more church the rest of the day.  OR, drive back early and spend an hour at our ward in their classes.  They all chose to go to the hour of classes.  Not just an "I guess" sort of situation, they WANTED to go to their classes.  I was so proud of all of them for wanting to be at church.  I keep praying that they will want to follow after the savior and yet they are doing it right now!  I was grateful to have this small moment of appreciation for their good hearts.

The days are long when you have early church, so we filled some time doing scout stuff and got blue cards turned in and phone calls made.  It's a lot of effort to keep these boys moving forward, uggg.  Then we all settled in and watched Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donnie Osmond.  I forgot how fun that is.  Dalin actually needed to review a play for his Theater merit badge so it worked out great.

Tonight we had the missionaries over for dinner.  It was supposed to be tomorrow, but that wasn't working out and whoever had them today couldn't, so it was perfect.  We love having them in our home and the spirit they bring.  Our kids always have so much fun with them and we love to hear about who they are and what things they do.  Tonight was also the Super Bowl, but we wait and celebrate and watch it on Monday as to keep the Sabbath day holy.  Because they knew it wouldn't be a good night for tracting, we got to keep them a little extra longer.  Lucky us. Ü  One of them has only been out a week, so he was fresh and green.  He hasn't even had a churro before!  I told him I'd be by tomorrow.

I love when Sundays are just good.  They all aren't, it can be long and contentious, but some are just the way they're supposed to be.   A day of rest, of worship, a day of love and family.